Reviewed-by: rasbold, kvn

Summary: Fix loop's probability. Add optimizations to avoid spilling. Change InlineSmallCode to product flag.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: test for null instead of strlen
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: handle NaN costs more carefully
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Push DecodeN node below the Null check to the non-null path to use the mach node without 0 test.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: An update buffer is not processed correctly, which causes roots into the collection set not to be scanned and, hence, for the heap to be corrupted. The cause is that an object is accessed after it has been explicitly deleted, which causes a race.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Bump the build number for hs14 b05
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Summary: insert CastII nodes to narrow type of load_array_length() node
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: add missing implicit null check cases.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add support for narrow oops in debug info to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Always look for the existing phi for a processed live_range.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add asserts with dead loop checks in AddNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Bump build number for hs14-b04
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Changed the guard on the definition of the method value in HeapWord from ASSERT to not PRODUCT.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Turn off c2 implicit null checking on windows and large pages specified.
Reviewed-by: jrose, xlu

Reviewed-by: rasbold